I see what you did thereRefereeing was horrendous.
Cant only complain when we lose
NRL Round 1 - Knights Vs Cowboys - 1:15pm Sunday 1st March (AEDT) - Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas
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HarVeeGee13
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
His work rate is good, he does the little things. He loses a lot of collisions though.
But we have to pick him atm. It is what it is.
krustykraz
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
2 runs for 5m doesn't read well.
Didn't he return from a long injury?
Hopefully he improves.
That’s a classy stint
Yeah agree cant looked much stronger in contact. Also brought on at right time by Holbrook.
KPGreatness
Todd Bates
I’ll back either Crouch or Hopwood to take Saulos spot by round 3
HarVeeGee13
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
A+ for Justin Holbrook in that one. Excellent bench management:
- Croker playing one long unbroken stint where he’s not expected to do a lot more than make a bunch of tackles, connective passing etc - a very low ball running load. Cant relieving him to play out the game. That’s a role which makes sense for both. Croker isn’t an impact player but he’s very fit and doesn’t make a lot of mistakes. Cant has a very high work rate but he’s vulnerable to getting smashed by NRL calibre forwards - but not in the last 25 mins when everyone is buggered.
- McEwen is very good but asking him to play 80 every week is a bit much at this stage. Frizell coming back on to play the last 15 for him after 30 good mins in the middle is also very smart.
I don’t know if this was always the plan or it’s an adjustment to Sharpe having to come off but either way it’s somewhat outside the box thinking which makes the best of what we have available. It’s IMO exactly what Bellyache would do with our team.
- Croker playing one long unbroken stint where he’s not expected to do a lot more than make a bunch of tackles, connective passing etc - a very low ball running load. Cant relieving him to play out the game. That’s a role which makes sense for both. Croker isn’t an impact player but he’s very fit and doesn’t make a lot of mistakes. Cant has a very high work rate but he’s vulnerable to getting smashed by NRL calibre forwards - but not in the last 25 mins when everyone is buggered.
- McEwen is very good but asking him to play 80 every week is a bit much at this stage. Frizell coming back on to play the last 15 for him after 30 good mins in the middle is also very smart.
I don’t know if this was always the plan or it’s an adjustment to Sharpe having to come off but either way it’s somewhat outside the box thinking which makes the best of what we have available. It’s IMO exactly what Bellyache would do with our team.
slotmachine
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Think Friz played middle when he came back at the end, cant moved to edge
HarVeeGee13
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Ah yeah fair enough, can be hard to tell when the game gets ragged. It worked either way, we finished the stronger.
slotmachine
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Reckon the next howler for Greg is always just round the corner. But you take the good with the bad
I can’t even say I can fault Gagai much even though it’s just one game. Definitely gotta be his last season you’d think. Going one too many and all
Channel 9 mentioned something along those lines during the Bulldogs and Dragons game so if they got it from that then fair enough and my bad.
Defence wins games
Todd Bates
Although Saulo’s defence has been ok.